Re: Can you say tent? (Was: Slide in Camper or Gooseneck)

["Duncan Fletcher" <dfletche@gte.net>]

I was a backpacker before I got into horses. When we first started horse
camping we used a tent. I don't mind sleeping in a tent, but set up time for
tent, cookstove, etc. seems a lot more significant when you also have horses
that need to be taken care of as well. We bought a camper: Used, $500. That
is a hell of lot less money than I have invested in tent and sleeping bags -
of course if the tent was bought used and the sleeping bags weren't sub
zero...

Duncan Fletcher
dfletche@gte.net


----- Original Message -----
From: <Howard4567@aol.com>
To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 8:36 AM
Subject: RC: Can you say tent? (Was: Slide in Camper or Gooseneck)


> In a message dated 1/6/00 9:55:18 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> guest@endurance.net writes:
>
> << You don't have to go out and buy tens of thousands of dollars
>  worth of "living accommodations" just to ride endurance. >>
>
>
> I agree completely, only cause I'm a poor ole boy and don't have much
money.
> My Wal-Mart tent does just fine although I have spent a few nights
freezing
> wishing I had studied harder in school so I could afford a motor home with
> HEAT.
>
> Anyway, even though I'm poor as a Church mouse, I did go out and get a
blow
> up air mattress and even spent extra for an air pump (yea, got that at
> WalMart too).  Turns out to be better than my mattress back home, the
lumpy
> one with the springs coming out of it.
>
> My goose-neck trailer living GA buddies are always making fun of my tent,
but
> when one of their horses got out one night at a ride, guess who's tent the
> horse went up to and guess who put the horse back?  (gotta admit when he
woke
> me up with his snorting and I saw his head thru my tent screen window it
> scared the Hell out of me) If you are at a ride during a full moon the
horses
> can make some really cool shadows on your tent late at nite, and after a
few
> beers, you'll swear you're seeing them projecting weird objects on the
wall
> of your tent trying to get you to guess what it is.  I've seen them make
> bears, ghosts, goblins & gouls (it was Halloween), and a huge jackolope
(jack
> rabbit & antelope cross).
>
> cya,
> Howard
>
>
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